2 YEAR MEMO PLAN TO MAYOR BEST
FROM: EMD K.VEIGA
This memo is a open recommendation plan for the city’s emergency management
agencies in responding to all routine (mode R) and true crisis (mode C)
Emergency’s. This memo will review all agencies roles, their interaction’s, and
future recommendations in the current scalar format . Please note this report of
recommendation’s is not just limited due to the past snowstorm but all true
emergency’s including weather/seismic related, biological health, terrorist, and
manmade disasters.
The emergency response of Modes R & C have to be fully functional for this size
city for we are a coastal community where blizzards & hurricanes are potentially
elevated to cataclysmic, south of Boston a port for Viral disease’s & terrorists, along
with the city’s normal related incidents of enforcement, fire, and EMS.
Mode R (routine ) has been the standard the city has used since its birth and will
stay that way since do to the experienced repetition and established guidance by
whom leaders and line responders alike make recognitionally primed decisions
leading to swiftly determined near precise results. This is the usual fire, police, EMS ,
public works who come up first in demand, followed by a lesser degree, schools, city
administrative (mayor’s office),public utilities, MEMA, and possibly FEMA/FEDS
along with some private industry depending. Mode R is the core based,
hierarchically led, best funded, with atypical known action and results even when
the demands are high. For less interaction & communication is needed or
performed between agencies although it leaves open the door for *cognitive biases
and prejudicial decision making to exist. (*more dangerous in Mode C) These
scalable incidents are where procedures and organizational skills as well as
expertise make deployments routine.
Modes C (crisis) is where...